Fort Bridger

Fort Bridger was a fur trading outpost in Uinta County, Wyoming which was founded in 1842 by the mountain man Jim Bridger. It became a vital resupply point for wagons on the Oregon Trail, California Trail, and Mormon Trail, and, in 1858, the US Army took over the fort during the Mormon War. In 1878-1880, the fort was abandoned, and it closed in 1890 when Wyoming became a state. A town soon developed at Fort Bridger, and it had a population of 345 people in 2010.